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  • Engelhardt, George Washington, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, The Book of Its Bourse & Co-operating Bodies, Philadelphia, Lippincott Press, 1898-99., p. 54
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    Client/Project Name: Ridgway Branch, Philadelphia Library

     
  • King, Moses. Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians. New York: Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901., p. 14
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    Client/Project Name: Ridgway Branch of the Library Company of Philadelphia

     
  • Teitelman, Edward, and Richard W. Longstreth. Architecture in Philadelphia: A Guide. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974., p. 179
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    Client/Project Name: Ridgway Library

     
  • McCarter, Robert. Louis I Kahn. London; New York: Phaidon, 2005., p. 493.
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    Client/Project Name: Library Company of Philadelphia / Ridgway Library

     
  • The Official Office Building Directory and Architectural Handbook of Philadelphia, The Commercial Publishing and Directory Co., Philadelphia, 1899, p. 277
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia Library (Ridgway Branch)

     
  • Thomas, George E.Buildings of Pennsylvania Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, Society of Architectural Historians, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, p. 91
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    Client/Project Name: Library Company of Philadelphia / Ridgway Library

    Architects Referenced: Hutton, Addison (1834-1916); Kise, Straw & Kolodner

     
  • White, Theo B., ed., Philadelphia Architecture in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953., p. 31, plate 63
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    Client/Project Name: Ridgway Library

    Architect Referenced: Hutton, Addison (1834-1916)

     
  • Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection at the Library of Congress
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    Client/Project Name: Library Company of Philadelphia, Ridgway Branch (HABS PA-1616)

     
  • Webster, Richard J., Philadelphia Preserved. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976., p. 185-186, 353
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    Client/Project Name: Ridgway Library

     
  • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Cultural Resources Database
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    Client/Project Name: Ridgeway Library

     
  • Koyl, George. American Architects' Directory. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., p. 109, 1956
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    Client/Project Name: Library Company of Philadelphia / Ridgway Library

    Architect Referenced: Cope, Thomas Pym (1897-1977)

     
  • AIA/T-Square Yearbook, p. 20, 1971
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    Client/Project Name: Ridgeway Library

    Architect Referenced: Hutton, Addison (1834-1916)

     
  • Philadelphia Register of Historic Places (Imported)
     
  • HABS/HAER/HALS list for Philadelphia and surrounding counties (imported November 8, 2001)
     

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